He said he struggles to the pay the $750 a month to rent a basement suite and if it wasn’t for the Christmas bureau, his kids, aged 10 and 16, wouldn’t have much of a Christmas at all.

“What little that we can spend we do, but with coming here, they help out a lot with extra presents, the Christmas meal and just makes the whole experience so much easier,” Scott said.

LISTEN: The Surrey Christmas Bureau will serve more than two-thousand families this holiday season and more than four-thousand children. It opened this week and CKNW senior reporter Janet Brown went to check it out.